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Impacts Of The Motivations And Antecedents Of Legacy Writing On The Consumption Of Biographic

The study highlights an emerging market – the life history business – which enables people to preserve individual and family memory. These services are developing as their target clientele – Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Samuel Guillemot
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Cultured Materialism: The Culturally Bound Link Between Materialism And Subjective Well-Being

Materialism, defined as a focus on the acquisition and possession of material objects, is described as an essential component of the social value system of societies (Burroughs and Rindfleisch 2002). Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Miao Hu, Derek D. Rucker, Jie Chen
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Framework For The Evaluation Of Experiences Before Consumption: Self, Vividness, And Narrative

We present a framework that explains how consumers evaluate experiences before consumption, and how this evaluation differs from that of products. We suggest that experiences are evaluated closer to Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Iñigo Gallo, Sanjay Sood
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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When The Right Is Not So Rigid: Political Ideology And Charitable Giving Revisited

The mental rigidity of ideological conservatives, known as the rigidity-of-the-right, is well-documented. In their thorough review, Jost et al. (2003, 352) conclude that “by far the most convincing Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Andrew M. Kaikati, Carlos J. Torelli, Karen Page Winterich
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Strong Attitudes Without Elaboration: The Threshold Difference Effect

Dweck, Chiu, and Hong (1995) identify two distinct implicit self-theories—entity vs. incremental theory. People who endorse entity theory (entity theorists) believe that their personal traits Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Jaehwan Kwon, Dhananjay Nayakankuppam, William M. Hedgcock
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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